The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110123 Message #2339973
Posted By: Rowan
14-May-08 - 01:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: HMAS Sydney - sunk 1941, located 2008
Subject: RE: BS: HMAS Sydney - sunk 1941, located 2008
Christ can they not leave these things alone ? At the end of the day who really cares ? Next they will be digging up trenches in Flanders.
Bob, if you'd followed the video clip you would have seen that most of the people who really care are the family members left behind; in many cases they deal with a void of 'not knowing'. This was particularly true for the Sydney and is partly true for the Centaur.
And yes, they are digging at Flanders, because a large group of Australians killed at Fromelles were unaccounted for in the official documentation of actions and subsequent burials. There is now some possibility that these people were buried in an area unmarked (and thus unrecorded) at the time and there is an archaeological investigation being conducted as I write.
I'm sure you didn't mean to appear dismissive of others' feelings.